200mm x 250mm

Ink on Card

Eric the llama always dreamed of the stage, he dedicated his life to it, and even got into RADA to walk the same steps and his idols. He spent years there; perfecting his art, honing his craft to perfection; he was destined for greatness.

Shortly after graduating, he was offered an audition to play Hamlet. It was his dream come true, Eric had always wanted to play Shakespeare’s tortured prince, and this was his opportunity to go down in the history books.

Eric didn’t get the part; it was given to a talent-less alpaca with a washboard stomach who had given the producer a blowjob in an alleyway the night before.

Eric was furious, and in that moment, his once loving heart shrivelled into a black walnut of loathing. He stormed home and immediately went online to vent his fury. He poured all his hatred, bile and vitriol into Internet forums, IRC channels and newsgroups. He stayed up all night trolling, accusing innocent users of horrible crimes, making misinformed statements then bitterly defending them with ill-founded proto-science and calling the mods nasty names.

By the following morning, Eric was a dried-out husk, and as he pressed ‘submit’ on a post telling a respected forum veteran the he was the son of a whore, he died. He had digitised what remained of his now evil spirit and sent it out as a spam message to every Internet user on the planet. Eric’s soul still roams the Intertubes and he hops from forum to forum fanning the flame wars and feeding on the fallout.

He became The Drama Llama.